Abstract: A method, computer program product, and printing system for monitoring an object to be printed at a defined location within a printed page. The object is printed at the defined location within the printed page. The object may then be printed at an alternate location within the printed page. The alternate location may be offset from the defined location by a defined distance in a defined direction.

Abstract: A method and system for format checking a translated text in which the method includes displaying the translated text on a graphical user interface, determining whether the translated text is visually acceptable based on the displaying, and validating the translated text. The system includes a graphical user interface, a storage medium having at least one translated text stored therein, and a processor adapted to read the translated text from the storage medium and display the translated text on the graphical user interface as a virtual display.

Abstract: A matrix printer (1) or other imaging device in a memory (7) stores fonts of character data (11, 11') in defining bit maps for each character of the fonts. The memory also stores shift values for each font which vary with the nature of the font for double strike, emphasize, and combined double strike and emphasize, from which character bit maps are modified before printing by being shifted and overlayed. Improved images for double strike and emphasize are achieved, and the combined double strike and emphasize need not be the overlay of double strike and emphasize.